The Food of Italy, Region by Region  •  Claudia Roden FOOD •  2003 •  PAPER  • 440 PAGES • COMING IN The marvelous food writer Claudia Roden, who spent a year visiting cooks and cooking throughout Italy, presents 300 easy-to-prepare recipes in the context of Italian history, culture and geography. (ITL683, $19.95)
In Sicily  •  Norman Lewis TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  HARD COVER  • 169 PAGES • COMING IN In this lovely, personable travelogue, Lewis ranges widely, introducing a cast of friends, journalists and residents from one end of the island to the other. He ranges too across time from his first acquaintance with Sicily more than 60 years ago to 1998. (ITL420, $24.95)
The Hill Towns of Italy  •  Carol Field  •  Richard Kauffman CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 116 PAGES • COMING IN A delightful illustrated survey of the towns, people and countryside of Tuscany and Umbria by a favorite writer on things Italian. The book devotes a chapter each to 13 towns in the region including Sienna, San Gimignano, Cortona, Perugia, Assisi and Orvieto. With an overview of Tuscany and Umbria, and dozens of full-color photographs. (ITL96, $19.95)
Renaissance Art  •  Gerard Legrand ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 163 PAGES • COMING IN An informative, illustrated overview of Renaissance art from Rome to Venice, including an in-depth chapter on Florence, biographies of key artists and a handy chronology. (ITL850, $16.95)